Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity The Journal of Treatment & Prevention Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713658059 The Neurodevelopmental Impact of Early Trauma and Insecure Attachment: Re-Thinking Our Understanding and Treatment of Sexual Behavior Problems Kevin Creeden a a Whitney Academy, East ...

The capacity to flexibly respond to contextual changes is crucial to adapting to a dynamic environment. Compulsivity, or behavioural inflexibility, consists of heterogeneous subtypes with overlapping yet discrete neural substrates. The subthalamic nucleus (STN) mediates the switch from automatic to controlled processing to slow, break or stop behaviour when necessary. Rodent STN lesions or inac...

The compulsive habit model proposed by Everitt and Robbins has accumulated important empirical evidence. One of their proposals is the existence an axis, on which each a person with particular addiction can be located depending evolutionary moment his/her addictive process. objective present study to contribute in addressing identification such as few studies related it have been published date...

Impulsivity is the tendency to act prematurely without foresight. Behavioral and neurobiological analysis of this construct, with evidence from both animal and human studies, defines several dissociable forms depending on distinct cortico-striatal substrates. One form of impulsivity depends on the temporal discounting of reward, another on motor or response disinhibition. Impulsivity is commonl...

CONTEXT There are no effective pharmacotherapies for stimulant dependence but there are many plausible targets for development of novel therapeutics. We hypothesized that dopamine-related targets are relevant for treatment of stimulant dependence, and there will likely be individual differences in response to dopaminergic challenges. OBJECTIVE To measure behavioral and brain functional marker...

Highly pernicious events can result in a variety of severe adult psychiatric manifestations, including pedophilia in select individuals with a history of prior "at-risk factors." Influences such as social isolation can either increase or decrease the outcome. This article reviews some of the other sequential developmental factors that might contribute to sexual compulsivity in such biographies,...

Most clinicians and researchers would agree that a condition exists in which a person’s driven sexual behavior causes either subjective distress or functional impairment. However, questions remain about how this condition should be designated. This article considers the designations that are most often employed—sexual compulsivity, sexual impulsivity, and sexual addiction—and concludes that sex...